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Title: The Honour of the Flag

Author: W. Clark Russell

Release Date: November 23, 2006 [EBook #19899]

Language: English

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SHORT STORY

THE HONOUR OF
THE FLAG

BY

W. CLARK RUSSELL

AUTHOR OF "THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR,"
"LIFE OF LORD NELSON," ETC., ETC.

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK LONDON
27 West Twenty-third Street. 24 Bedford Street, Strand.

1895

The Knickerbocker Press, New Rochelle, N.Y.

SHORT STORY

_Contents_.

PAGE

=The Honour of the Flag= 3

=Cornered=! 28

=A Midnight Visitor= 41

=Plums from a Sailor's Duff= 57

=The Strange Adventures of a South Seaman= 82

=The Adventures of Three Sailors= 110

=The Strange Tragedy of the "White Star=" 137

=The Ship Seen on the Ice= 163

THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG

=_The Honour of the Flag_=.

A THAMES TRAGEDY.

Manifold are the historic interests of the river Thames. There is
scarcely a foot of its mud from London Bridge to Gravesend Reach that
is not as "consecrated" as that famous bit of soil which Dr. Samuel
Johnson and Mr. Richard Savage knelt and kissed on stepping ashore at
Greenwich. One of the historic interests, however, threatens to perish
out of the annals. It does not indeed rise to such heroic proportions
as you find in the story of the Dutch invasion of the river, or in old
Hackluyt's solemn narrative of